07 LC 33
1909
House
Bill 544
By:
Representative Hembree of the
67th
and Forster of the
3rd
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 33-50-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to a required license for any multiple employer self-insured health plan to
transact business in this state and health plans of municipalities, counties, or
other political subdivisions, so as to provide that any plan or arrangement
established or maintained by two or more accredited independent nonproprietary
institutions of higher education located in this state is not subject to the
requirements relating to multiple employer self-insured health plans; to provide
for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 33-50-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to a
required license for any multiple employer self-insured health plan to transact
business in this state and health plans of municipalities, counties, or other
political subdivisions, is amended by revising subsection (b) as
follows:
"(b)
This chapter does not apply to any plan or arrangement established or maintained
by municipalities, counties, or other political subdivisions of
the
this
state; any multiple employer self-insured health plan which is not subject to
the application of state insurance laws under the provisions of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. Section 1001, et seq.; to
organizations established under the authority of or receiving funds pursuant to
42 U.S.C. Section 254(b) or 254(c), the federal Public Health Service Act; any
other nonprofit organization exempt from federal taxation whose primary purpose
is providing access to primary health care services for indigent citizens of
Georgia; or
to any plan or arrangement established or
maintained by a nonprofit educational organization with assets of more than $100
million for the benefit of the employees of such organization and the employees
of any affiliated or associated persons, firms, associations, or corporations
which perform functions related to those of such educational organization or of
which a majority of the membership of the governing body is composed of
employees or members of the governing body of the nonprofit educational
organization;
or to any plan or arrangement established or maintained, directly or through a
legal entity, by two or more accredited independent nonproprietary institutions
of higher education located in this state, which such institutions have combined
assets of more than $100 million and are members of the Georgia nonprofit
corporation representing a majority of the accredited independent nonproprietary
institutions of higher education located in this state, for the benefit of the
employees, including retired employees, of:
(1)
Such institutions;
(2)
Any affiliated or associated persons, firms, associations, trusts, or
corporations that perform functions similar or related to those of one or more
of such institutions or of which a majority of the membership of the governing
body is composed of employees or members of the governing body of one or more of
such institutions; and
(3)
The Georgia nonprofit corporation representing a majority of the accredited
independent nonproprietary institutions of higher education located in this
state."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.